Fun fact: Bill Daley isn’t the only new chief of staff in the White House with longtime ties to the Chicago Way. Yep, it’s No Windy City Corporate Lawyer Left Behind Week in the nation’s capital.
On the other side of the White House, deep-pocketed campaign-finance mega-bundler Tina Tchen was named first lady Michelle Obama’s new right-hand woman — or rather, left-hand woman. The self-described “progressive” attorney from Chicago is taking over as chief of staff in the East Wing following the expected departure of Susan Sher. Tchen personally raised more than $200,000 for the Obama presidential campaign while a lawyer at white-shoe Skadden Arps. (No word on whether Mrs. Obama gave her the same anti–corporate lawyer, fat cat–bashing lecture she delivered on the campaign trail.)
